oct-nov-2025
A succession of six publications have held the title The London Magazine dating back to 1732, making it England's oldest literary periodical. Originally founded to rival the Gentleman's Magazine, its pages have boasted the likes of Keats, Shelley, T.S. Elliot et al along the way. Its current iteration—‘eclectic in taste, promiscuously interested and unapologetically intelligent’—publishes the best writing from London and beyond, split into fiction, poetry, essays and reviews. This issue includes poetry by Xabier Usabiaga, Holly Pollard, Andrew Kerr, Eric McHenry, Rowland Bagnall, Nina Relijć, Tarn McArthur, Patrick Romero McCafferty, Dominic Leonard, Horatio Morpurgo, Paul Chuks, Matthew Moniz and Carolyn Oliver. Short fiction by Kasra Lang, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Alisha Dietzman. Plus: Tristram Fane Saunders on why magazines fail, Zuhri James on the Buddha of Suburbia and the psychogeography of London, Zsófia Paulikovics on Perfection, Allegro Pastel and the aesthetic life, and Yasmina Snyder explores the links between live music and poetry with writers, poets and musicians. Cover: ‘Inside Story’ by Sandra Blow thelondonmagazine.org
